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Anniversaries ___

Anniversary Party Slideshow Need a gift idea for your parents' wedding anniversary? Want to give the best gift you've ever given? Want to make someone laugh, cry and fall in love all over again? Show a DVD slideshow of their lives together. We can transform photographs of their wedding day (circa. June 1, 1957) into a custom-animated slideshow that will touch the hearts of all who view it. Tell their story in pictures and music -from early childhood to their first date, from their days as young parents to grandparents. For some in your audience this will revive precious memories they may have forgotten. For the younger people it will be a way to preserve family history for your children and grandchildren. Want to add words to tell your story? We can incorporate quotes from old and faded love letters, personal reminiscences, words from a loved one who has died that you have recorded on cassette tape. Often, a photo-montage slideshow is the highlight of the event or occasion. Your DVD slideshow will quickly become a family heirloom, treasured by the generations to come!

Weddings ___

Wedding Reception SlideshowWant a creative way to share the bride and groom's "Love Story" at a wedding reception? Show a personalized movie to introduce the new spouse to the family and friends of the bride or groom. In a few short minutes, your guests will "get to know" your spouse as they watch him/her grow up on screen. Begin with baby pictures, and let the audience watch you grow from early childhood to their courtship together. Tell how you met, fell in love, and came to be married.

Rehearsal Dinner Photo Montage This is a good opportunity to show a more personal retrospective of an engaged couple, since the audience will be close family and friends and not a large audience.

Wedding & Honeymoon Slideshow Imagine your love story made into a movie and created from your wedding and honeymoon photos. Combine the photographer's photos with amateur shots, and your wedding music. Don't just store your precious photos in a drawer or photo album to fade and collect dust. Your slideshow will be an heirloom to share with your family and friends. This is a great "thank you" gift for your wedding party.

Engagement / Love Story___

Would you like to make a movie of your love story? Imagine watching a movie that tells the story of how you and your lover met and fell and love. Add a new chapter of your love story every year. Send us the photos and any other media you want to include. We will create a new DVD that includes your new chapters and any (or all) other content from previous chapters into one continuous storyline. It's a great way to appreciate how your relationship is growing and changing through the years.

Birthdays ___

Looking for a way to pay tribute to someone special on their birthday? Whether it's your husband's 40th birthday, your daughter's sweet 16th, or great Grandma's 90th birthday, a photo-montage slideshow will help you share the story of their life with others. DVDs are a great gift to celebrate the guest of honor on his or her birthday - whether it's the 1st, 16th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 75th or 90th birthday. Share their life with a creative slideshow that everyone will enjoy watching.

Quinceañera, Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Rite of Passage, Coming-of-Age

Graduations ___

Want a visual way to celebrate your son or daughter's graduation? Show a DVD slideshow that chronicles his/her life and accomplishments so far. Watch a graduate grow up on screen, from a toddler in diapers to a teenager driving a car, in an animated slideshow of their life. Watch your child's life unfold before your eyes. Include special events, such as school plays, piano recitals, birthday parties, holidays and any other events with special meaning. Take a fun-filled trip down memory lane and show them how precious their life really is.

Family tribute to someone special ___

Want to tell the life story of a family member or ancestor? We will consult with you by phone or email to learn all of the important details of the focus person or persons. This may include favorite music, people, places and events that had an effect on the subject's life. Your focus person may have favorite songs you wish to include or we can use popular songs from different eras in the DVD. We will guide you in music selections along the way. You may want to include video and pictures as well items such as historical documents, newspaper articles, diplomas, report cards, personal letters, and anything else you have. You can also add personalized messages to your DVD by taping yourself or family members with a camcorder and sending the tape along with your other materials. Preserve a family member's true life story and pass on family history to your children and grandchildren. This makes a great gift to give to extended family and friends.

Life Story & Biography ___

Want to share the lessons life has taught you? Let us help you tell the story of your life in your own words and pictures so that generations to come will know who you were, what you did and why you did it. We creatively combine photographs, music, memorabilia and more, creating video memories on a DVD that will be treasured by your family forever. It's a way of handing down your values, wisdom, faith, and love. Share favorite stories, traditions, and experiences. What are the things that made you smile, things that made you cry, things that made you sing? What are your hopes for the future? It's about the person you have become, the values that you hold dear, and the values that you hope will live on in your family once you are gone. This is your chance to inspire future generations. It's an opportunity to relate the lessons life has taught you. The greatest inheritance you can give is you. We will work with you to capture the right mood whether it be solemn, respectful and low key, right through the spectrum to fun, cheeky and upbeat...or maybe a mix of them all.

Father's / Mother's day ___

Can't think what to give for Father's Day? Your dad or husband probably won't ask for a slideshow from his children on Father's Day. But when he watches pictures of himself wrestling on the floor with his kids, sledding in the snow with them, teaching them to fish or ride their bikes, taking family vacations together, building a shed in the backyard, he will be glad you thought of it.

Vacations ___

Recent Vacations We can take your photos and video, set them to music of your choice, and create an exciting slideshow that your family and friends will enjoy Plus, the DVD slideshow will become a keepsake that your family will appreciate years from now.

Long-Ago Vacations We all have vacation photos and videos from years past. But who looks at them? Create an amazing piece of family history by setting these photos into a DVD slideshow or transferring your old video to DVD. Your family will be very entertained and will have the opportunity to revisit all these memorable, happy trips from long ago!

Soldier stationed overseas ___

Are you a military spouse (parent or child) of someone serving in Iraq or Afghanistan? Help your soldier feel included in your family-life while they are away from those they love. Share photos or video of family events, children's birthdays, holidays, or just a typical day at home with the kids. You can even record your family's voices on tape and include a narrative track along with your photos. With a DVD slideshow you can share the passing moments of life together, while you're apart.

Christmas & Holidays ___

Tired of sending the same-old cards at Christmas time? Create a personalized Christmas Greeting on DVD. Share your life in photos from the past 12 months with family and friends. Forget about sending out Christmas cards, or photocopying newsletters, we can bring your year to life by presenting your family photos as a video slideshow with your favorite Christmas carols and songs as musical accompaniment. Get ready for a very Merry Christmas knowing your Christmas wishes are being shared with family and friends around the country and around the world.

Valentine's ___

Looking for a gift idea for the love of your life on Valentine's Day? Guys, think of how special you'd make her feel if you did this without her knowing or asking! Start from the moment you met and go through the years highlighting all your most memorable events. Add "your song", have a professional media company put it all together for you, then plan a special candlelight evening and watch it together. What better way to express your love than a romantic DVD of your life together?

New baby ___

Do you have a New Baby that you want to celebrate with others? Create a DVD slideshow to share with parents and grand-parents living far away. Share your baby's first months and years with those who can't be there to experience it firsthand. Granparents love to brag to everyone about their grandchildren. Think of how proud they would feel displaying a video slideshow of their children and grandchildren at the next get-together with all their friends!

Scrap Booking for DVD ___

Would you like to make a scrapbook your family could watch on TV? Until now, scrapbooking has mainly been about being creative with your memories on paper but have you ever thought about making a digital scrapbook? One that lets you to combine music, photos, slides, documents, newspaper stories, your own titles, and even old family video footage to create your own show to watch on your TV? It's similar to paper scrapbooking, so you get to have all the fun of collecting the best photos, deciding their order and writing captions and titles for them - but because this is a production for TV, you also get to choose the music or voice over you'd like to accompany your digital scrapbook. And if you have any video footage you'd like included, we can do that too. Our team professionally scans all your material, creatively edits it together with special effects, then professionally duplicates it for you on DVD. It is a joy to see your photos enlarged in rich colour on your TV screen, and brings your memories to life. You can get additional copies so that your children, grandchildren and friends can all have their own copy and ensure that your scrapbook is handed down to more than one branch of your family in the years ahead. Your precious photos will also be digitally preserved as part of the process, so you can have peace of mind about those treasured memories too.

Genealogy & Family Tree History ___

Want to put your family history on DVD? You haven't done all that loving research on your family history to hide it away in a drawer somewhere! Turn it into a family heirloom that will have an impact on generations for years to come. This is a chance to begin an oral history for your family so your family know from who and where they have come from. Imagine seeing those old photos paired with ancestors' names, dates and other interesting descriptions, special effect transitions between photos, music and more. We can help you tell the fascinating story of your family in a way that will bring the history of your family to life. We can remove dust spots from old slides and photos and generally enhance them so they will look great when they appear in all their glory on your television screen. The process will also ensure all your old family photos are saved digitally so they don't fade, discolour or become further damaged by acids and mold. And this is great fun to do! It's fun to get all the material ready, and it's especially fun to watch the end product. We guarantee you will watch it again and again. This is a great gift for current and future generations!

Illness ___

Have you or someone in your family been diagnosed with a serious illness? If so, you'll know how it can re-order your priorities and make you focus on the things that are most important to you, which is often family and friends. Record a message to share with your friends and family and leave them with more than a memory, leave them with your words, your expressions, your thoughts, your wishes, your hopes, your learnings, your love. Leave them with a great sense of you. You can choose to make this a surprise that they can watch on a key event like a birthday or the birth of a grandchild. You can send us your video or audio and we will edit it for you, add photos, music, titles and special effect transitions as needed. We will professionally duplicate your message onto DVD. You can then either share it immediately or leave it with a close family friend or your solicitor to distribute as you direct. We believe the recording of these messages is one of the most important services we offer, and we are honored to be part of this process.

Alzheimer's & Dementia ___

Have you or someone in your family been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Dementia? By combining your photos, slides, music, video clips, and voice over if required you can capture their life story on video and DVD. Whether you are the person with Alzheimer's, or a caregiver or a loving family member, you will never regret putting together this life story. The only regrets you will have is if you don't. This is an extraordinary gift for a family and it's important that you don't delay. Begin capturing those precious memories and turn them into a celebration that will be viewed by many generations to come. It's a great process for everyone involved.

Royal Oak Media specializes in multimedia DVD slide shows, photo film and slide scanning, photo montage, vhs-to-dvd conversion, videotape-to-dvd transfer, multimedia animation, blu-ray disc, BR disc, BRD, High Definition video, HD DVD, and web design. If you are looking for a professional or wedding slide show or photo montage, or the ultimate family video, then you have come to the right place! We create unique photomontages and slideshows for special occasions such as: wedding, reception, anniversary, graduation, birthday, family vacation and reunion, soldiers stationed overseas, holiday, memorial, funeral, family tribute, and other occassions listed below.

Weddings: Great wedding reception ideas. If you are looking for a contemporary and unique wedding reception slide shows, you've come to the right place. These are sometimes referred to as a wedding reception photomontage, or wedding slideshow, or even a wedding video album on DVD. Many brides looking for reception ideas come to us and realize it would be great to have a photomontage at their wedding ceremony! At RoyalOak Media we can help you with a perfect romantic video album slideshow for your your wedding ceremony or reception. We offer an affordable wedding video montage which includes the wedding music of your choice. We can make a video of your wedding vows on DVD or your 1st anniversary. Some areas where we create wedding video disks are listed here: Dublin OH, Bowling Green KY, Shreveport LA, Columbia MD, Springfield MA, MO St. Joseph MI, Jackson MS, Houston, TX.

Birthday: If you are looking for a creative birthday gift ideas consider a video scrapbook on DVD. This is perfect as a birthday party presentation. Let us create a memory slideshow or slide shows set to music and celebrate the life of someone special. One of our favorites is creating "brand new baby" video albums. Whether you are celebrating a child's 1st birthday, your son or daughter's sweet 16 birthday, grandma's 80th birthday, or even her 100th birthday this is a great way to show how much you care. Some locations we will mail birthday video disks are: Montgomery AL, Sandusky OH, Dover DE, St. Petersburg FL, Lakeland FL, Savannah GA, Bloomington IL, Terre Haute IN, Winnetka, Chicago Ill Topeka KS, Bunker Hill Village, Scarsdale, N.Y. Jersey City, NJ. We think a retrospective video album slideshow is a great birthday gift idea because the older one gets the more special it becomes.

Binghamton NY, Ridgewood, NJ, Barrington, IL, Springfield OH, Meridian MS, Lowell MA, Rolling Hills, Atherton, Calif. Hampton VA, Basking Ridge, NJ, Alexandria LA, Macon GA, Anderson IL, Kenilworth, Ill. Fort Myers FL. We can make an affordable wedding video to be shown at a wedding rehersal, at your wedding ceremony, or wedding reception. Or, after your wedding day is over, after the fact, we can make a romantic DVD keepsake of your special day from your wedding album pictures, combining professional photography, videoography as well as any photos your family and friends have taken at your wedding. We can use actual wedding music or wedding songs that were performed at your nuptual celebration or you can include any romantic love songs you wish to add. We can add a special video clip or slideshow photo montage showing how the two of you met, your courtship or dating years and a touching story of what brought you together.

Anniversary:
Tell their story in pictures and music -from early childhood to their first date, from their days as young parents to grandparents. So, if you need a creative wedding anniversary gift idea, consider putting wedding annivesary photos to music to show their life in videos and song. Whether you're planning a 1st wedding anniversary, 10th wedding anniversary, 25th wedding anniversary or 50th wedding anniversary or even 60th anniversary we can help you create a romantic photo montage to celebrate the life and marriage of your special couple. Some areas where we create anniversary video disks are: Johnson City TN, McLean VA, Greenwich, CT, Burlington NC, Winter Haven FL, Brigham City UT, Pickerington OH. One of our specialties is creating a 50th wedding anniversary slideshow DVD or 50th wedding anniversary photo slideshow or photo montage or 50th wedding anniversary picture slideshow on DVD. We can transform photographs of their wedding day into a custom-animated slideshow of their anniversary that will touch the hearts of all who view it.

Vacation slideshows: Do you have photos from multiple years of summer vacations, trips to exotic far-away places, or just good memories of years at the family cottage? Don't let these photos and memories collect dust in an old photo album. Let us put them into a digital slideshow. Some places we would like to work are: Beverly Hills, CA, Lake Forest, IL, Westport, CT, Winnetka, IL, Summit, NJ, Pacific Palisades, CA, Houston TX, Saratoga, CA, Chesapeake VA, Colorado Springs CO, Pensacola FL, Naples FL, North Hempstead, NY Bradenton FL, Davenport IA.

Valentine's Day: Looking for a gift idea for the love of your life on Valentine's Day? Guys, think of how special you'd make her feel if you did this without her knowing or asking! Start from the moment you met and go through the years highlighting all your most memorable events. Add "your song", have a professional media company put it all together for you, then plan a special candlelight evening and watch it together. We can create a Valentine's Day video montage or anniversary gift for: Daytona Beach FL, Potomac, MD, Hinsdale, IL, Plano TX, Millville NJ, Chevy Chase Village, Md. Ashville NC, York PA, Pittsfield MA, Munsey Park, N.Y. Los Altos Hills, Calif. Oyster Bay Cove, N.Y. Jefferson City MO, Omaha NE, Concord NH, Long Island NY, Albany GA. What better way to express your love than a romantic DVD of your life together?

Mother's / Father's Day: We can create a video slideshow or photo montage on DVD, CD or BVD disk for your parent. Your dad or husband probably won't ask for a slideshow from his children on Father's Day. But when he watches pictures of himself wrestling on the floor with his kids, sledding in the snow with them, teaching them to fish or ride their bikes, taking family vacations together, building a shed in the backyard, he will be glad you thought of it. We will create mother's day or father's day video disks for: Muttontown, N.Y. Brookville, NY Spartanburg SC, Florence AL, Cherry Hills Village, Colo. Piney Point Village, TX Norfolk VA, Roslyn Estates, N.Y. Lloyd Harbor, N.Y. Schenectady NY, Birmingham AL, Little Rock AK, Old Westbury, N.Y. Fayetteville NC, Hillsborough Calif. Hidden Hills, Calif. Greenville SC, Lancaster PA, Salt Lake City UT, Sands Point, N.Y. Charleston SC, Morgantown WV.

Family Vacations: How many of your vacation pictures are hidden away in shoe boxes, packed away in the back of closets that no one ever sees. We make video scrapbooks to be shared with those you love. We have done video scrap booking of family vacations. We've can even make a musical video scrapbook of your home movies and family video. Some areas where we design family video disks are: Lincoln NE, Glencoe, Ill. Manchester NH, Yonkers NY, Murfreesboro TN, Grove City OH, Belle Meade, Tenn. Frederick MD, Tallahassee FL, Rockford IL, Rocky Mount NC, Sarasota FL, Cumberland MD, Baton Rouge LA. Children grow up too fast. Your photos deserve to be seen. Let us make you a digital video slideshow of your best memories as a family.

Family Reunions: Everyone takes pictures at family reunions, but seldom do we share photos with one another. Wouldn't it be great to put the best photos each person has taken over the years, and put them together in a photo memories DVD that everyone could watch? Then you could invite everyone, all the aunts, uncles , nieces and nephews, grandma, and grandpa and see how you all have matured and grown over the years? We will make family video disks for: London OH, Joplin MO, Portland ME, Wooster OH, Titusville FL, Reynoldsburg OH, Ewing NJ. Let us make for you a retrospect video album that your whole family will treasure for years to come.

Family Tribute of someone special: Want to tell the life story of a family member or ancestor? We will consult with you by phone or email to learn all of the important details of the focus person or persons. This may include favorite music, people, places and events that had an effect on the subject's life. Your focus person may have favorite songs you wish to include or we can use popular songs from different eras in the DVD. We will guide you in music selections along the way. You may want to include video and pictures as well items such as historical documents, newspaper articles, diplomas, report cards, personal letters, and anything else you have. You can also add personalized messages to your DVD by taping yourself or family members with a camcorder and sending the tape along with your other materials. We will make family tribute or family tree video disks for: Bowling Green OH, Lafayette IN, Fairfield, CT, Issaquah, WA, Cleveland OH, St. Louis MO, Springfield IL, Jacksonville FL, Washington DC, Charlottesville VA, Washington DC, San Jose, CA, Boca Raton, FL, Findlay OH, Lansing MI, Mercer Island, WA, Princeton, NJ, Warren OH. Preserve a family member's true life story and pass on family history to your children and grandchildren. This makes a great gift to give to extended family and friends.

Scrapbooking for DVD: Would you like to make a scrapbook your family could watch on TV? Until now, scrapbooking has mainly been about being creative with your memories on paper but have you ever thought about making a digital scrapbook? One that lets you to combine music, photos, slides, documents, newspaper stories, your own titles, and even old family video footage to create your own show to watch on your TV? Our team professionally scans all your material, creatively edits it together with special effects, then professionally duplicates it for you on DVD to serve areas such as: Saginaw MI, Trenton, NJ, North Allentown, PA, Chevey Chase, MD, Trabuco Canyon, CA, Bellevue, WA, Garden City, NY, Bryn Mawr, PA, Saint Louis, MO, Vienna, VA, Wayne PA, Woodinville, WA, Duluth, GA, Burlingame, CA, Los Gatos, CA, Syosset, NY, Naperville, ILDelaware OH, Wilmette, IL, Westfield, NJ, Syracuse NY, Huntington WV, Decatur IL, Owensboro KY.

Holidays: We can create a Christmas photo montage DVD or video montage DVD of your many family get-togethers at Christmastime. In fact, we can make multimedia slideshows or a video scrapbook of any family occassion, or religious holiday. We will create holiday video disks for: Huntsville AL, Oscala FL, Hickory NC, Upper Arlington OH, East Kansas City, KS, Sioux City IA, Louisville KY, New Brunswick NJ.

Life Story & Biography: Want to share the lessons life has taught you? Let us help you tell the story of your life in your own words and pictures so that generations to come will know who you were, what you did and why you did it. We will create your slideshow in: Trenton, NJ, San Francisco, CA, Knoxville TN, Raleigh NC, Frankfort KY, Rochester NY, Redwood City, CA, Brookville, N.Y., Newport Beach, CA, Highland Park, IL, Massilon OH, Miami FL, Wilkes-Barre PA, South Bend IN. We creatively combine photographs, music, memorabilia and more, creating video memories on a DVD that will be treasured by your family forever. It's a way of handing down your values, wisdom, faith, and love. Share favorite stories, traditions, and experiences.

Soldier stationed overseas: Help your soldier feel included in your family-life while they are away from those they love. Share photos or video of family events, children's birthdays, holidays, or just a typical day at home with the kids with a digital video slideshow. With a DVD slideshow or musical photo montage using photos you take of the special occassions or just the day-to-day events of the past few months, you can share the passing moments of life together, even while you're apart. This is a great reason to make a video scrapbook on DVD. And we offer a discount for the family of military personnel at all times. We work in your location: Cincinnati OH, Lima OH, Charleston WV, Boston MA, Long Branch NY, Charlotte NC, Calabasas, CA, Alpharetta, GA.

About our company: Royal Oak Media is based in Logan, OH -- just outside of Columbus, OH. We serve clients throughout the United States, as well as the Lancaster, Nelsonville, Athens, and Columbus Ohio Area. We have created video albums, slideshows and montages locally and nationally. Some of the areas where we will work are listed here:
50th Wedding anniversary slide show Dublin, OH, Granville, OH, Flint MI, New Albany, OH, Cincinnati OH, Indianapolis IN, San Jose, CA, Lafayette, CA, Buffalo NY, Bethesda, Maryland, Philadelphia PA
Wedding slide show Galena, OH, Chicago IL, Worthington, Ohio, Boston, MA, Worthington, OH, Parkersburg WV, Milwaukee WI, Baltimore MD

New Baby: Share a new birth in your family. We can put together a slideshow that incorporates baby photos, new mom and dad, grand-parents, in-laws, etc. Let us help you get the word out about your new addition to your family circle. We work in your location: Fort Wayne IN, Bethesda MD, Bridgeport Stamford, CT, Memphis TN, Detroit MI, Livingston, NJ, Sugar Land, TX.